.TH lcm_source 1 2007-12-13 "LCM" "Lightweight Communications and Marshalling (LCM)"
.SH NAME
lcm_source \- transmit random messages over LC channels
.SH SYNOPSIS
.TP 5
\fBlcm_source \fI[options]\fR

.SH DESCRIPTION
.PP
\fBlcm_source\fR is a utility for testing the Lightweight Communications library
(LC).  \fBlcm_source\fR transmits random messages on either a specified LC
channel or random LC channels.  Messages can be randomly sized, or a specified
fixed size.

.SH OPTIONS
The following options are provided by \fBlcm_source\fR:
.TP
.B \-m \fICHAN\fR
Transmits messages on channel \fICHAN\fR (default: random channels)
.TP
.B \-p \fIDELAY\fR
Wait \fIDELAY\fR microseconds between transmissions (default: 10000)
.TP
.B \-s \fISIZE\fR
Transmit packets of size \fISIZE\fR bytes.  If \fISIZE\fR is 0 (default),
then packets are randomly sized between 1 and 65,000 bytes
.TP
.B \-v
verbose mode.  Prints a summary of each packet
.TP
.B \-h
Prints this help text and exits.

.SH COPYRIGHT

lcm-source is part of the Lightweight Communications and Marshalling (LCM) project.
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify it under the terms of
the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software
Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later
version.  See the file COPYING in the LCM distribution for more details
regarding distribution.

LCM is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
Lesser General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
License along with LCM; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51
Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA

.SH AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Albert Huang.
